Posted by The Dean of Cincinnati

Regular readers of The Beacon know that we have a cast of characters who frequent the comments.  Someone named “cincysuz” has a constant theme when she joins discussion here:  accuse The Beacon of being a propaganda machine for the Republican Party.  So we asked ourselves a simple question:  what if we started quoting cincysuz back to herself?  What would it look like if cincysuz argued with herself?  We were given that opportunity when we combined the recent discussion of Marc Dann with an old post about Dennis Kucinich dropping out of the race.

In this comment, I posted the following:

If Obama wanted to be the real “people’s candidate” he would take the golden opportunity to attack the million ways the Republican’s have screwed up the country and spell out exactly how he would do things differently. I don’t see him differentiating himself at all. Americans DO want to hear that. Of course Republicans don’t and he wants so much to appeal to them, that he’s just going for the “America has great potential, we can do anything we set our mind to” patriotic, nationalistic, whip ‘em into an emotional frenzy message. He wants to create a bunch of Republicans for Obama, like the Democrats for Reagan bunch.

I copied the content from this post left by cincysuz on the older article.  And she took the bait!  Here is cincysuz arguing with herself:

Once he gets the nomination, he’ll have the opportunity to attack the Republicans. Right now he has to devote all of his energy to repelling the racist attacks that come from all fronts. I haven’t been following the Greens, Independents or Libertarians but wouldn’t be surprised if they’ve gotten their licks in too. But then the father of a two children that may very well face that scenario in this racist land isn’t concerned about “color.” Funny how white people always say color doesn’t matter but will find every flimsy excuse not to support a black man when the rubber meets the road. And it’s a laugh hearing you, who have treated all Republicans with kid gloves, extended every possible courtesy to your brethren, that someone else is weak on attacking Republicans. But I don’t think you and JJ and MEP in partnership with the rest of the Republicans will be successful this time in your efforts to install another Republican administration!

That’s when I responded with another tid-bit copied from cincysuz:

Obama and Clinton are one in the same. The only difference is that Obama names a Republican, Ronald Reagan, as his inspiration. Some choice.

You can see the original here.

After some prompting, she took the bait and argued with herself again:

Oh really? Well first why don’t you explain why you continue to bash the only viable non-Republican candidate for president? Sure, he’s not as progressive as I’d like, but the other choice is Clinton or the McCain/Nadar ticket. I think that like many white people, your motives are race based. You’re looking for an excuse not to support a black male presidential candidate and everything you say on this blog supports that. That would threaten the superiority of you and the other Beacon boys so you choose to support either the old white male that has decade after decade been rejected (you guys always love to say that Gore lost his own state when Nadar never takes anything) but like the ever ready bunny keeps on running, or the other old white male war mongering Republican. The choice would be clear to anyone BUT a hard core conservative. And I’m really eager to read YOUR response. But I don’t expect it.

I left one more piece dangling for her, but she didn’t bit a third time.  Did she figure out our game?  Who knows.  But it sure was great having fun with cincysuz!

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